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The form-noticing language learners show in the language output and feedback is the key to improving the quality of output. While form-noticing has been increasingly researched by many language teachers, effects of proficiency and sex and its impact on subsequent learning in the context of EFL writing have not been fully investigated through data mining. This study examined EFL students' English vocabulary...
This paper presents the idea of exam script analysis and the design to provide it as well as the support for examiners to mark exams written using pen and paper devices. It also describes partial implementation going on. Pen and paper devices capture the traces of pen movement (called digital ink), allowing the answers to be reorganized independent from paper format, analyzed and marked semi-automatically...
This paper offers a brief overview of the Mapping the Future of Engineering Communication Project, a larger research study conducted by the authors. A national survey of engineering educators yielded 137 responses, supplemented with a focus group of nine engineering educators conducted at the 2008 Frontiers in Education Conference. The study explores multiple aspects of the ways in which engineers...
Learning of student can be assessed by objective type and subjective type questions. Educationists and behavioral scientists declare subjective writing skills essential for senior management positions. Investigation revealed that IT professionals who qualified through objective type online examination and lack subjective writing skills could not earn rise in career to top management positions easily...
This article presents a few suggestions for time-efficient exams, homework, and office hours that maintain educational quality while (hopefully) saving time for professors, and reducing stress for students.
Automatic essay scoring system is a very important research tool for many educational studies. Many researches indicate that AES systems should be able to analyze semantic characteristics of an essay and include more such features to score essays. This paper makes an assumption: some concepts that can be regarded as literary concepts would only be utilized by skillful writers. However, it is a difficult...
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